Honduras vs Niger: Annual forest expansion

Honduras
20,640 hectares per year
in 2020
Niger
15,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Honduras rank
19th
Niger rank
22nd

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Honduras
  • Niger
05.0k10.0k15.0k20.0k25.0k199020052020

How they compare

Honduras currently reports 20,640 hectares per year against 15,000 hectares per year in Niger, a difference of 5,640 hectares per year.

That makes Honduras's figure about 1.4 times Niger's.

Across all 5 years both countries report, Honduras has been ahead every year.

Honduras ranks 19th and Niger ranks 22nd of 110 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Annual forest expansion
Unit
hectares per year
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
110 places, 550 data points, 1990–2020
Last refreshed

Forest expansion is the sum of afforestation (the establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding) and natural forest expansion (expansion of forests through natural succession on land that, until then, was under another land use).